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This is my playground for poetry written for children with ideas and inspiration for writing your own poems. Come on in. Sit for a spell, have a cup of words to swirl around and make your own cup of poetry. I'm so glad you are here. I hope you'll find the Kingdom of Poetry a fun place to be.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Riding

I've ridden a horse
in Colorado.
I've ridden a burro
in old Mexico.

I've ridden a buffalo
across the plains.
I've ridden a elephant
at a zoo in Des Plains.

I've ridden a reindeer
across the Ukraine.
I've ridden a camel
'cross sand in Bahrain.

But the best way to ride,
that I like,
is to pedal around
on my two wheel bike.

Think about all the ways that you move and transport yourself. Can you make a list of the many transportation vehicles you've been on or in. Have you ridden in a car, a train, a bus, a plane? How about a wagon? Can you write a poem about it? Where did you travel to?

Oh, I haven't done all of these things--except in my poems. Remember, a poet's first responsibility is to write a good poem. So, I get to make up all kinds of experiences for my poems. That is why a good imagination is so valuable for a poet.

About Me

Joy Acey, the Princess of Poetry, has won many prizes for her poems. She published in Highlight's HIGH FIVE, and The Poetry Friday Anthologies. She is a performance artist and conducts writing workshops for children and adults. She’s hopped a freight train to ride in a boxcar over the world's second largest wooden trestle bridge. She was on a TV game show and won enough money for a trip to Australia. She has lived in England and Japan. She has walked across a volcano in Hawaii and a glacier in New Zealand. She has gone swimming with iguanas in the Galapagos and was in Ecuador during a revolution. She visited the rainforest in Peru, went on safari in Kenya and walked The Great Wall in China. Always looking for new adventures to write about, she currently lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her husband Jeffrey Frelinger, an immunologist. She has two grown sons and two fabulous daughters-in-law.